Community Medical Center , an affiliate of Barnabas Health Care System, is a 587-bed, fully accredited acute care hospital offering area residents world-class medical treatment with the comforts of hometown care. Opened in 1961, CMC has evolved into the state's largest non-teaching hospital and Ocean County's largest and most active healthcare facility caring for over 28,000 inpatients, 127,700 outpatients and 91,900 emergency department patients each year.